Postcard: A Street Vendor for Athletes

A postcard is always a pleasant surprise, particularly in an era of Instagram and SMS pics. We don’t have enough postage for our entire readership, but our new bite-sized series, Postcards lightly details the who, what, when, where and why. It’s a simple, and effective, premise. Whether they’re based on a life-changing subject or just a strange one, shot with a Red Epic or an iPhone, we hope you find these little moments more genuine than the stock images you’re used to seeing opposite of the Xs and Os.

11:00 a.m. | SW Corner of Central Park, New York — If you’re out for a 5:00 a.m. bike-run workout before starting your daily grind, you certainly don’t want a backpack killing your aero advantage. T2 Lockers, founded and run by Army vet and triathlete, Richard Rafael, provides street-side storage for New Yorkers while they train in Central Park. In the city? Follow @T2lockers for daily schedule updates.

There will be another college championship game next year, but there will never be another inaugural College Football National Championship. In that, my ability to fly down to North Texas and be a part of the festivities at the super-swag AT&T Stadium was priceless.

"A quarter million for a car? Seems wasteful." I used to be that guy. And then one day I got to ride in the brand new Lamborghini Huracán LP 610-4 through the Spanish countryside, and I realized how much of a fool I'd been.

2:30 p.m. GMT | Edinburgh, Scotland -- That’s what the guy in the shop selling scarves told us, anyway: that James Wood & Sons, Wood’s for short, was the oldest place to get a cut in Scotland’s capital city.

3:45 p.m. GMT | Off the Coast of Mallaig, Scotland -- The bridge between the mainland and Scotland's largest island had just been closed due to inclement weather -- 70 mph winds and a rising sea. That sea roiled us now, the stout ferry rocking and weaving like a bantamweight prizefighter in the ring.

In 2011, Jimmy Chin climbed one of the hardest peaks in the world, Shark's Fin on Mount Meru. What's more impressive is that he filmed the adventure, then turned it into a documentary that just won big at Sundance.